Welcome to the direct descendant of Dragon's Lair Webzine:

Welcome back for our 8th issue! This one is nearly on time, and things are almost back to normal. This is a larger issue than last month. (There were lots more submissions, keep 'em coming, folks!) I'd dearly love to have huge issues every month! But, no matter how many stories there are in an issue, rest assured that they are all good ones!

In this issue there are new writers, new chapters in our continued stories, new continued stories begun, updates on our reports, our letter column, and a new cartoon.

Please visit our letter column and drop us a note. Our writers like to read the Lettercol to look for words of encouragement. Not many of you readers have the time to send e-mail to the writers whose stories you especially enjoyed. Well, that's why our Assistant Editor worked up the Letter Column Page, so folks can let everyone know what kind of job they're doing. Its helped me to realize that I need to do a better job proofreading, something that I did this issue. I may not have caught every mistake, but I caught more of 'em!

I'd like to thank those of you who have sent e-mails for your feedback. Keep those e-mails coming, folks! Without those messages we will never know what we need to improve upon. Hope you like the improvements so far!

We had 564 Readers visit Aphelion in August! Thank you! Please keep coming back for each new issue as it goes online.

Also, there are links to back issues of Aphelion at the bottom of this page. You can still see everything that has appeared in the Zine so far.

I have been informed that our parent Webzine is back into production! Dragon's Lair Webzine is back! Way to go, Roger! I knew you couldn't stay away for very long. The URL is: Dragon's Lair Webzine: http://www.jaguNET.com/~rbennett/DragonsLair/dragon.htm

And now, I'll shut up and let you get to reading. Thanks again for visiting. Enjoy yourselves!

If you miss the wavefile that played automatically at the start of our previous issues click here to hear it now.

• Dreamer Part 4 By Dan L. Hollifield ***Daydreams and Magic.
• Time and Time Again Part 8 By Cris Lawrence ***Danger leads to strange meetings.
• One God's Folly Part 3 By Richie Adams ***A Tale of an Ancient Warrior.
• Time Matrix Part 1 By D.K. Smith ***People can get addicted to almost anything.
• Trigeminus Part 1 By Dennis Talent ***Aliens among us, what are they really like?
• Witness of the World Part 1 By Chad Cottle ***Memories of a telepathic child.
• The Universe Between Part 1 By Scott Reeves ***Action and adventure when universes meet.
• The Quality of Grace Part 1 By Vasilis Adams A. ***History as it might have been.
• Ancient Rune Part 1 By Liz Bass ***Of Elves and Men.

• The Broken Door By A. Diallo Jackson ***Old Gods in the Modern Age.
• Freedom By Joe Gensweider ***Freedom is the enemy of any King.
• The Undying Man By R.J. Steen ***Immortality is a curse when everything you value is gone.
• Time for a Change By Brian Gallucci ***Tinkering with time can be murder.
• The Gift of Life By Allen Woods ***Best to let sleeping dragons lie, even in the nuclear age.
• I Ain't Going Back to Mullberry Street By Larry W. Van Guilder ***Time can be a weird toy, to those who fool around,
• There are No Atheists in a Foxhole By Allen Muenzler ***An irreverent look at modern icons. (WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE. If strong language offends you, skip this story.)
• Waiting in a Stony Place By W. Fraser Sandercombe ***An undying love... reborn!

• A Word in Your Ear By Robert Wynne ***Rob Wynne holds forth on....whatever comes to mind. ***Poking fun at Micro$oft! The new national pastime!
• Starbase Update SFTV Schedules and News Compiled by Lee Whiteside.
• Babylon 5 report and Episode Listing By Denise Chochrek.
• Aphelion Letter Column A place for your opinions.
• Excentrivial MusingsThe Aphelion Cartoon Page.
• Mare Inebrium Wallpaper Page 51 JPGs you can download and convert to Bitmaps for wallpaper. This is a slow-loading page, but well worth it.

Submissions Guidlines Page :Click here to see the Submissions Guidelines Page.

copyright 1997 by Dan L. Hollifield

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